Dean and Professor
Touro College of Pharmacy
Dr. Henry Cohen has been Dean and Professor of the Touro College of Pharmacy since 2016. Before coming to TCOP, Dr. Cohen was a professor of pharmacy practice at the Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences of Long Island University (LIU) in Brooklyn, New York for over 23 years. At LIU he also served as the Chief Pharmacotherapy Officer for the Department of Pharmacy and was the Director of Pharmacy Residency Programs, including PGY-1 and PGY-2 programs in Critical Care, Internal Medicine and Geriatrics at the Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY. At Kingsbrook, he established the Pharmacotherapy Department, with over 20 Clinical Pharmacists and Pharmacy Residents.
Dr. Cohen is a Past-President of the New York State Council of Health-System Pharmacists and the recipient of the Council’s Bernard Mehl Leadership Award and the Pharmacists Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Cohen is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Pharmacy Practice, a respected peer-reviewed journal focusing on new drugs and therapies, pharmacokinetics, drug administration, and adverse drug reactions.
Education
Dr. Cohen is a registered pharmacist and earned a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy and his Master of Science with a Specialty in Pharmacotherapeutics from the Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Subsequently, Dr. Cohen earned his post-graduate traditional Doctor of Pharmacy Degree from St. John’s University College of Pharmacy in Jamaica, New York.
He is a Fellow of The American College of Critical Care Medicine, and was Board Certified in psychiatry and geriatrics for over 20 years.
Professional Service
In addition to his service as the editor-in-chief of The Journal of Pharmacy Practice, he is an extensively published author, with over 200 peer-reviewed articles, abstracts, and book chapters. Dr. Cohen is the textbook editor and author of the first edition of Casebook in Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Drug Dosing, McGraw-Hill Education (2015). Dr. Cohen has presented over 250 invited lectures on pharmacotherapeutic topics throughout the United States.
Dr. Cohen was the pharmacist member of the ACCM’s Post-Intensive Care Syndrome Task Force through the completion of its work in 2013, and an author in the sentinel publication entitled “Improving long-term outcomes after discharge from the intensive care unit” in Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Cohen has received 6 Society of Critical Care Medicine Presidential Citations for outstanding contributions to society.
